Soldier Struck By Car While Directing Traffic
A 29 year old Bermuda Regiment soldier — who was directing traffic as the road had been reduced to one lane due to debris — was struck by a car yesterday morning in Hamilton parish.
A police spokesperson said, “Around 11:15am on Monday, October 20th first responders attended a reported collision on Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton parish, near the junction with Quarry Road.
“It appears that a male Bermuda Regiment soldier was directing motorists in the area, as traffic flow had been reduced to one lane while the other lane was being cleared of debris, when a car collided with him.
“The 29 year old Devonshire man was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital via ambulance for treatment of a leg injury and later discharged.
“Inquiries are ongoing and any witnesses that have not yet come forward should contact Sergeant Kim Cowper at the Southside Police Station on telephone number 293-2222.”
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Great way to thank the men and women that are working their tails off to fix the island after two storms. What kind of jerk does this?
Do you really need to ask?
Some people need to have their licenses revoked.
Why are witnesses needed? Did the assailant not stick around?
I sincerely doubt the soldier hurled himself into oncoming traffic
Book that person. Name and shame.
If he was in camouflage they may not have seen him.
Despite that awful humour, I genuinely hope the young man is OK and has a speedy and full recovery.
Thank you for all your work helping Bermuda.
Truly appreciated.
Some people are just so impatient, or they are on their phones! I have been one of the crews working on the road trying to get everything clear right after the storm, and people just don’t want to wait. We are stopping traffic because trees are being cut down, but these bikes still want to zip on past us!
Here in Western Australia the Govt. has raised the penalties for using their phone to $500.00 and 3 demerit points. Wonder if that will work
Lousy drivers here in Bermuda. What a shame.
Yes, there are inconsiderate drivers in Bermuda. Many. Having lived in many states and traveled extensively I would say this is common in many jurisdictions.
Bermy has some of the worst drivers in the world where the heck you racing to in 22 square miles…… i dont get it
who says the person was racing? most of the time plain old STUPIDITY is the cause of most accidents and bad driving. More people going slow have caused me accidents and near accidents than speeders, of which none have caused me an accident.
i saw these teen boys on their weak bikes trying to show off in a pack of like 6 and one boy swerved right into the other lane into oncoming traffic, as if to pull into the bus bay on the other side of the road, but he did it right in the way of a man on his bike and they almost collided. then the boy changed his mind and just whipped back around into his lane again…derp de derp! then another boy -0 i hope – tried to overtake on a blind corner but his bike was so patheticaly weak it was straining to exceed 35mph to overtake the car and hence an on coming car blared its horn as it almost collided, and the boy couldnt even overtake and just slid back to the pack again in defeat.
derp de derp!
Selfish, speeding, non-caring drivers. Plane and simple. The rest of the platoon should have dealt with him/her!!!!
They ran to stop the driver when he tried to drive away from the scene. One soldier took the keys from his car so he couldn’t flee. The major had to be held back, rightly so.